Home Sweet Home, 14 James Lane, East Hampton, New York, is the house at which John Howard Payne spent his childhood. It is on The National Register of Historic Places, open different times, different months. Inside is a chest made in 1640 which is documented to be the oldest piece of furniture made in the … Continued
International Women’s Writing Guild Summer Conference, PO Box 810 Gracie Station, NY 10028 (mailing address), takes place in summer at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. It includes workshops, readings, and many other literary events.
John Burroughs lived and worked for the last 25 years of his life in the Slabsides cabin in Ulster County, and the Slabsides Nature Preserve, which is still in existence, has been named a Natural Historic Site. Mailing Address: The John Burroughs Association, Inc. at the American Museum of Natural History, 15 West 77th Street, … Continued
The Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony was founded as an Arts & Crafts Community in 1903 and is still operating.
The Country Lawyer (Bellamy Partridge) house is marked with a sign.
The Ulster County Courthouse bears a plaque commemorating Sojourner Truth’s landmark legal battle against a slave trader.
West Point, 50 miles North of New York City, has many literary connections. Among the writers associated with West Point are George Horatio Derby (graduated 1846), Timothy Dwight (chaplain 1777-1779), William Faulkner (visited 1962), Charles King (graduated 1866), James Gates Percival (assistant surgeon & professor of chemistry, 1824), Edgar Allen Poe (cadet, 1830-1831), Carl Sandburg … Continued
Henry Ward Beecher’s house was built in 1875 and is still standing.
James Fenimore Cooper wrote about his days and sightings in Oswego County and was inspired to use Oswego County as the setting for “The Pathfinder.”
Gate of Heaven Cemetery is the final resting place for writers Anton Bilotti, Bob Considine, Ernesto Lecuona, Conde Nast, Heywood Broun, George Jean Nathan, Dorothy Kilgallen, William J. Burns, and Westbrook Pegler.